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Under The Hood: Metal

Apple has also provided developers with a new set of programming resources called Metal. This technology allows your favorite developers to optimize their applications (or more likely specific features within an application) for better performance on recent generations of Mac hardware. This is largely accomplished by leveraging the power of GPUs (or graphics processors). You can learn more about Metal and its potential benefits (particularly for users of creative applications) in this detailed blog post.


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